It's a retarded comment, and he's a retard for making said retarded comment (triple retard combo!) but ultimately, the context of the video is making comments for people who actively want (and pay) for him to be president. I'd be surprised if the Obama camp didn't secretly think the same thing, that if some sort of international crisis happened, that it could theoretically and in part help him win the election.

Of course, the difference is that Obama wouldn't say that openly. But I think saying that he's "hoping" for such a situation is a pretty bias interpretation.

Because a lot of Americans have been trained to see politics as a religious type movement in which you pick a side and never deviate, meaning the real issues are never very important in determining results.

I think saying it is a pretty huge difference tbh. Personally I don't see Obama as the type of character that would want to gain politically from this kind of situation, there are times to score points and this isn't one of them. But there's the difference, even if you think it, you don't say it. Obviously Obama has a political facade, but he does come across as someone who is, for the most part, acting in the best interests of the country and its citizens. I think his actions since taking office have suggested that.

As for Romney, I think the guy is a sociopath. I don't know how he still has support from any average US citizen. He could go on TV for the next debate, shit on the floor and roll about in it, and people would still vote for him. He knows that people will vote for him no matter what he does, and his campaign has been a disaster that would have destroyed a democratic candidates chances a long time ago. I'm not a huge Obama fan or anything, just looking at it objectively he's the best choice by a distance. American politics affects the entire world, I'd be concerned about Romney dragging Britain in to another war should he take office.

It's like Americans treat politics like sports. You're brought up to be either Democrat or Republican, and instead of voting for the party whose ideologies align with yours, your take your ideologies based on what your party tells you. You have to wonder how long a country can operate like this before something snaps.

I dunno, there's a lot of undecided voters this time around. It's not really a case of Republicans vote Republican and Democrats vote Democrat. I know a lot of Dems who are talking about voting GOP simply because they've lost faith in Obama. He did promise a lot and ultimately failed to deliver in a lot of ways. Then there's the people who aren't inherently Republican but are exceptionally constitutional, and ultimately the GOPs are, in spirit but not necessarily in practice, more interested in the reduced role of Federal government that the original US Constitution was based on. The main problem is they want to reduce the role and give it to corporate players rather than state/individual level.

But yeah, Romney's a fucking alien who thinks he can act like a person. And Ryan's a robot covered in human flesh.